Chapter 7
User Account Administration
About This Chapter
This chapter introduces you to user accounts and to how to plan them. It also
presents the skills and knowledge necessary to create domain and local user
accounts and to set their properties, as well as to set up user profiles and home directories. Finally, this chapter covers user account maintenance, including
disabling, enabling, renaming, deleting, and unlocking user accounts and resetting user passwords.
Before You Begin
To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must have
Knowledge about the difference between a workgroup and a domain Knowledge about the difference between a domain controller and a member server Experience logging on and off Microsoft Windows 2000 Knowledge about the Active Directory naming conventions